BP Factory Rolex Datejust Wimbledown's Crown

[Fedon06]

Hi everyone,

I was about to get my 2nd rep, a BP made Rolex Datejust Wimbledon dial. So I found it on a TD site and after confirming, made the payment. 1st QC was found unfit by TD as movement wasn't working well and 2nd QC was redlighted by me due to a fault on the "U" letter on Datejust word. These are okay, no problem at all and I was waiting for the 3rd QC.


My 3rd QC arrived and now I have a question now regarding the crown design of the watch. Correct me if I make a mistake in this part. The correct crown design of DJ Wimbledon is "straight line under coronet" as I saw on gen examples and not the "two points under coronet".

1st and 2nd QC pics had the correct crown. But on the 3rd QC, crown has the incorrect "2 points under coronet" design although everything else is great. I told this to my TD and he checked with factory and replied that "this is the ONLY version available right now".

So the watch I bought by checking TD webiste's pictures had the correct crown but my QC has the wrong one. But TD says it's the only option although the first two QC had the right crown.

straight line coronet, on the earlier but faulty QCs - correct crown as I see from Gen examples

https://ibb.co/j5NbqwK

2 dots coronet (didnt see any on DJ Wimbledons)

https://ibb.co/kyCxhS2

What would you recommend, dear folks? Do you say it's not a big fault, just GL it? (or maybe that 2 dots design is also correct for these DJs?)

Or maybe the factory can send an extra crown that has the correct design, within the package, for me to get it mounted here. They can just send me one of the crowns of the faulty earlier QC's? Would it be fair?

What should I do?

 

[p0pperini]

It depends on how much this really means to you. If it was me, I'd accept it. You could go on and on rejecting watches until the factory stop making the model altogether. Or you could accept this one with a perfectly good part (which may or may not have ever been supplied on gen examples), which is easily upgradable/replaceable at a future time, and thus avoid the prospect of never getting anything at all.

 

[mari115]

You shouldn't use a gen as a comparison example in order to decide if you want to green light or red light a replica, you should use another replica of the same watch from the same factory

 

[scottiedog]

It depends on how much this really means to you. If it was me, I'd accept it. You could go on and on rejecting watches until the factory stop making the model altogether. Or you could accept this one with a perfectly good part (which may or may not have ever been supplied on gen examples), which is easily upgradable/replaceable at a future time, and thus avoid the prospect of never getting anything at all.

This ^^^^^

I´d get it then look for a gen crown - problem sorted

 

[EagleBear]

@Fendon06
FYI ... here are a couple of examples that should help you decide. There are a couple of examples on Bob’s and a few on Chrono24 that you should have a look at.
Here is also a reference sheet that will help as well. Good luck

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[alligoat]

The two dots on the crown signify gold- either white, yellow or rose gold. I doubt anyone will notice and like has been said above, get the watch and don't worry about such a small detail. It looks like the Wimbledon dial has a WG fluted bezel and so a WG crown wouldn't be too much of a stretch. Of course the rep crown won't be real WG anyway.

 

[EagleBear]

@Fendon06
Just realized this image didn’t load.

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[KJ2020]

Some more discussion here

https://forum.replica-watch.info/for...ther-questions

Unfortunately the chart referenced does not include 6 digit models and would lead one to conclude that an SS or TT DJ with a 6mm crown would always have an underline. But as seen in many examples of 6 digit gen SS or TT DJs, this is not the case. As usual, Rolex does what it wants and leaves us scratching our heads to figure out wtf.

https://millenarywatches.com/rolex-c...20lock%20crown

If everything else looks good on your QC I wouldn't worry about the crown marking. Rolex doesn't seem to.

 

[Fedon06]

Hey folks! thanks for your great input, I GL'd the s**t out of that QC as everything else seemed nice now we'll wait and see! will post pics in 1-2 weeks once I have the piece